Mike Conaway: “I have talked about Social Security being basically a contract with ourselves, a promise with ourselves, that we would…”

“I have talked about Social Security being basically a contract with ourselves, a promise with ourselves, that we would not break that. From now, every time I talk about that, I will have to think about this legislation, have to think about the fact that, wow, here is a written contract, much like the written provisions of Social Security, much like the written provisions in our veterans' benefits, that we tend to keep but here is one that we did not. I do not think there is a stopwatch fast enough that could measure the amount of time that this bill laid before those committees because they did not work. So how those committees did meet, how they were able to get it through all four of those committees without anything happening, without any meeting is one of those well-kept secrets about how this process works when you do not have a transparency that a full committee process will have.”